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Acrosticus · July 19th 03, 06:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london

From: "Dave Arquati"
Date: 19/07/2003 00:02 GMT Daylight Time

I was thinking mainly of the ways that transport flows
are studied and controlled, how they work (e.g. how traffic flows around
cities or pedestrians around stations), an introduction to how they are
modelled, those sort of ideas if you can understand what I'm after (although
with very little knowledge of the area to begin with, it's difficult to
define).

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7

Right! Now we seem to be on track after a few false starts with train spotters
assuming transport is all railways and that nothing else matters. There's
probably a later edition than this now but I would suggest as a starting point:

Bruton, M J (1975): "Introduction to Transportation Planning" (2nd Edn),
London: Hutchinson & Co.

Good on mathematical modelling without getting too heavy for beginners to
grapple with. Plenty of equations, but all supported by detailed written
explanations of what they do and where the terms in them come from. Deals with
road traffic, but not passenger movements around large railway stations though
(which, oddly enough, might be the kind of thing you'd find in an architecture
text rather than a transport one; but which particular text I couldn't say as
I'm not an architect).